This page
is research from an investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday
Times of London and the UK's Channel 4
Television into a campaign linking the MMR
children's vaccine with autism.
| Go to part I: The Lancet scandal | Go to
part II: The Wakefield
factor

Among the
biggest concerns raised by Brian Deer's
investigation was a battery of invasive investigations performed on
autistic children. Here, an abstract
presented at the annual meeting of the
British Society of Gastroenterology on
10-13 March 1998, in Harrogate,
Yorkshire, reports at least 30 autistic
children were involved in the most
intensive phase. Elsewhere, the second
author, Dr Simon Murch, claims it was
fewer than 12. In all, at least 170 were
subjected to ileocolonoscopies and other
serious procedures